Interview with River Pilot Captain Bryson - CRR 01

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Doug Parker

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Piloting a ship is a dangerous job that requires a lot of training. We sit down and have a chat in studio with river pilot Captain Eric Bryson. Captain Bryson answers our questions on what it's like making that leap from the PILOT boat to the cruise ship, navigating mega ships, and the training required. This interview originally aired in spring 2011.

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0:00.0	Broadcasting from the cruise capital of the world.
0:03.0	This is...
0:05.0	Cruise Radio Rewind.
0:07.0	Real reviews from real cruisers.
0:10.0	I know you're probably wondering what is Cruise Radio Rewind, and I'll tell you.
0:15.0	So over the past 10 years, I've done just over a thousand interviews.
0:19.0	Some of them have made it to the podcast. Some of them have never seen the light of day. And some of them only aired on the cruise radio show on Sunday mornings here in Jacksonville when that was a thing. So I'm taking the best of the best, and I'm going to repurpose them for Cruise Radio Rewind. And let me know what you think.
0:37.6	Do you like it?
0:38.3	Do you hate it? Please give me your feedback. Either way, Doug atcruiseradio.net, or hit me up on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and let me know if you want to hear more of these. On today's rewind, it's an interview we did with Captain Eric Bryson, a river pilot in Jacksonville, Florida. up. These are the guys that navigate the ships up and down the river.
0:55.8	You may have seen the pilot boat before out in the ocean,
0:58.8	bringing the pilot to the cruise ship or picking the pilot up when you're leaving port.
1:03.0	And Captain Bryson was one of those guys.
1:05.2	I hope you enjoyed this interview.
1:06.8	You've heard about them.
1:07.8	Perhaps you've seen them while you're cruising.
1:10.5	Sometimes they've been referred to as river pilots, but they are officially called harbor pilots.
1:16.7	And we're so excited and happy to have one with us here today.
1:19.8	Captain Bryson, welcome to Cruise Radio.
1:22.1	Well, thank you very much for asking me here.
1:23.5	First of all, tell us a little bit about yourself.
1:25.5	Well, I've been a harbor pilot in Jacksonville for 20 years.
1:29.0	I graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy, the United States Merchant Marine Academy, in 1977.
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